Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb
Wally Lamb is an American author known as the writer of the novels She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True, both of which were selected for Oprah's Book Club. He was the director of the Writing Center at Norwich Free Academy in Norwich from 1989 to 1998 and has taught Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Connecticut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth17 October 1950
CountryUnited States of America
drawing lions wave
As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
denial driven profit
Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
evidence-of-god evidence god-exists
The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
giving people drink
Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
stars book rocks
First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
stories hardship firsts
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
people waste scared
People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
kids needed
When I was a kid... I needed to belong.
writing opportunity thinking
I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
character writing firsts
I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
writing way different
I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
hurt it-hurts deeper
I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
thinking waiting secret
I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
cities cnn devil
I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too. Drawn to it. Travelers tap their brakes to ogle the mutilation and mangled metal on the side of the interstate, and the traffic backs up for miles. Hijacked planes crash into skyscrapers, breached levees drown a city, and CNN and the networks rush to the scene so that we can all sit in front of our TVs and feast on the footage. Stare, stunned, at the pandemonium--the devils let loose from their cages.